The medusa tree
Subtitle: a novel
By: Mylène Dressler.
Publisher: MacMurray & Beck
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Denver, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Women -- Fiction.
Description: A novel of the Dutch East Indies through the eyes of two Eurasian women. One is Gerda, a wealthy widow whose expertise in tennis saved her from Japanese internment in World War II. The other is Fan, wife of a prisoner of war and mother of a baby daughter, whom Gerda protects. The women enter into a lesbian relationship and after the war move to California. Narrated by Fan's daughter. A first novel.